Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government-Labor or Tory-has been lax about telling Britons the facts of life in Korea, has kept alive the notion that the best way to peace is to be nice to Mao Tse-tung. Britain's newspapers have treated the Korean fighting as a dull, disagreeable affair worth only a few sticks of type. The House of Commons debate was marked by ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself. Some Britons actually seemed to believe that a truce had been in operation in Korea until...
Marthe Richard's reply to these words was a suit for 1,000,000 francs. Trim and neat in a smartly tailored grey suit, the 62-year-old reformer sat stiffly in court while a 30-year-old lawyer defended her virtue. "But this affair was a command," shouted the young man. "Besides, Von Krohn was 70 years old at the time." "You are very young, confrère" murmured the opposing lawyer suavely. "A man of 70 is not necessarily repulsive. Why, I myself...
Last week, after eight days of deliberation, the court awarded a token verdict of 50,000 francs ($130) to Marthe, but observed that Mme. Richard had nonetheless laid herself "open to criticism by the complacency with which in her memoirs she had narrated her affair with Von Krohn." Parisians seemed to take a mischievous delight in the court's comments. At last, cracked the newspaper Combat, "Marthe Richard's patriotic virtue has received its statistical evaluation...
...into words by Helen Keller. "We, the blind," said she at the Sorbonne ceremony, "are as indebted to Louis Braille as mankind is to Gutenberg . . . The raised letters under our fingers are precious pods from which has sprouted our intellectual wealth. Without a dot system, what a chaotic, inadequate affair our education would...
...began to flow over his murals, Diego had to acknowledge that the submerged parts were indeed beginning to fade. As usual, he had an explanation: "It is because of the bad quality of the water. It contains mud, crude oil and tar ... I wash my hands of the whole affair...